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Word entry · 4 letters

auld

Best crossword clue

"Scots old"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /oʊld/Part of speech adjectiveSorted adluStarts with AEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2U3L4D

Definitions

  1. Old, especially in Scots usage.

Word origin

From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”). Doublet of old.

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